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Cornifies vs Hornifies - What's the difference?

cornifies | hornifies |

As verbs the difference between cornifies and hornifies

is that cornifies is (cornify) while hornifies is (hornify).

cornifies

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cornify)

    • cornify

    English

    Verb

  • (chiefly, medicine) To convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
  • *{{quote-book, 1985, Moschella & Hurley, Dermatology, edition=2nd ed., volume=1 citation
    • , passage=No longer in contact with an inner root sheath, the isthmus epithelium cornifies without a granular zone, and the thin cornified layer is composed of compactly arranged cornified cells.}}

    Derived terms

    *cornification

    hornifies

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hornify)

    • hornify

    English

    Verb

  • To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
  • * 1930 , The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17
    • We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum
  • (colloquial) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy (page 88)
    • The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny
  • (obsolete) To horn; to cuckold.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)